Thanks for taking the time to respond so fully, Pluralist. That is quite a tour de force! If you have time to give this any further attention, I would be very interested to know what you think on the question of where the Christian language-game of resurrection arose, and why it was able to be so central to the kerygma (from which I take it to be a very public sort of discourse). That, I think, is the only point you didn’t touch on.

I’m with you on the value of compex explanatory models. And, as far as the cross, I tend more towards the dialectics of Moltmann than Tom Wright. One thing I want to clear up, and that is that resurrection is not resuscitation but recreation. I don’t puzzle too deeply about the physics and biology of it: I take it as the basis for Paul maintaining that to share in Christ’s death and resurrection is to become a kaine ktisis - a “new creation” (1 Cor 5:17).

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